{"id":346,"date":"2008-03-12T15:26:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/12\/worlds-oldest-animation\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T01:56:18","slug":"worlds-oldest-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/worlds-oldest-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Oldest Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.cais-soas.com\/News\/2008\/March2008\/04-03.htm' title='gazelle animation'><img style='float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0 0;' src='http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/gazelle_animation.gif' alt='gazelle animation' \/><\/a>A 5200 year-old goblet (see image below) from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shahr-i_Sokhta\">Burnt City in Iran<\/a> has a series of images depicting a wild goat jumping up to get leaves from a tree.  The animation shown is from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cais-soas.com\/News\/2008\/March2008\/04-03.htm\">11-minute documentary about the goblet<\/a> (which was actually found ~1970).  Basically, if you take each image in succession (like a flip-book), you get the animation.  Neat.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the post-revolutionary Iranian archaeologists kinda got things wrong; they attribute the tree on the goblet to the &#8220;Assyrian Tree of Life&#8221;.  But the goblet is from 1000 years before any mention of the Assyrian civilization in historical records.  Ooops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/detail.aspx?id=45705&#038;sectionid=351020105\"><img src='http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/iranian_goblet.jpg' alt='iranian goblet' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 5200 year-old goblet (see image below) from the Burnt City in Iran has a series of images depicting a wild goat jumping up to get leaves from a tree. The animation shown is from an 11-minute documentary about the goblet (which was actually found ~1970). Basically, if you take each image in succession (like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}